[GOPJ]

It's odd no intelligent patterns have been found so far. Wasn't it assumed the Universe would be teeming with life?

[muir_redwoods]

It's been said (Arthur Clarke?) That the failure of contact is our failure of imagination. We are trapped looking for ourselves and the others are so sufficiently different that we do not (cannot?) imagine how to contact them.

Depressing

[RadioAstronomer]

It's odd no intelligent patterns have been found so far. Wasn't it assumed the Universe would be teeming with life?

Actually, we are not looking for patterns at all. Just finding a narrowband carrier is enough. :-) The problem is just how big this universe is. It takes light (radio waves) years just to reach the nearest star. The other rub is where and what frequency do we look at? It is not unlike finding a station on your car radio if there was only one radio station out there, you don't know the frequency, you only had a directional antenna, and the radio station could only broadcast so far in any direction.